Domain Holdings Australia Ltd (or simply Domain or Domain Group) is an Australian digital property portal and associated real-estate industry business. It is best known for its real-estate website domain.com.au, and also owns the brands commercialrealestate.com.au and allhomes.com.au. The company was a wholly-owned

subsidiary A subsidiary, subsidiary company, or daughter company is a company (law), company completely or partially owned or controlled by another company, called the parent company or holding company, which has legal and financial control over the subsidia ...

Fairfax Media Fairfax Media was a media (communication), media company in Australia and New Zealand, with investments in newspaper, magazines, radio and digital properties. The company was founded by John Fairfax as John Fairfax and Sons, who purchased ''The ...

from 1999 until November 2017, when Domain was listed on the

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as a

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, although Fairfax Media (now

Nine Entertainment Nine Entertainment Co. Holdings Limited is an Australian publicly listed company with holdings in mass media radio and television broadcasting, publishing and digital media. It uses Nine as its corporate branding. The entity is largely a succ ...

) retained a 60% ownership of shares. In May 2025,

CoStar Group CoStar Group, Inc. is an American provider of information, analytics, and marketing services to the commercial property industry in North America and Europe. Founded in 1987 by Andrew C. Florance and based in Arlington, Virginia, the company has ...

entered an agreement to acquire the company.

History

The company was founded by

, when the publisher branded their real-estate sections in print with the Domain brand and first established an online presence in 1999. In February 2015, the ''

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'' published an article highlighting

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analyst expectations of a likely float of the Domain Group in the future, and attributed an AUD $1.3 billion valuation to the group. On 21 February 2017 trading in Fairfax shares was suspended until half yearly results and an announcement of intent to turn Domain into a listed entity were announced. Domain Group was widely seen to "prop up" Fairfax revenues, as the company's publishing divisions were struggling. Domain began trading on the

on 16 November 2017. Having acquired a 20% shareholding in Domain,

launched a takeover offer in February 2025. In May 2025, CoStar entered an agreement to acquire 100% of the company for A$3 billion.

Portfolio

The Domain Group is best known for its real-estate portal domain.com.au, which is Australia's second largest real-estate marketing business, with 90% market penetration. It competes directly with market leader

REA Group REA Group Ltd and its subsidiary companies, known as the REA Group, make up a global online real estate advertising company. REA Group is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, with subsidiary office in Gurugram, India. REA Group, founded in 19 ...

, running real-estate.com.au, which is majority-owned by Nine rival

News Corp Australia News Corp Australia is an Australian media conglomerate and wholly owned subsidiary of News Corp. The group's interests span newspaper and magazine publishing, Internet, market research, DVD and film distribution, and film and television prod ...

. As of August 2023, the Domain Group consists of a portfolio of businesses including but not limited to: * The Domain (domain.com.au) and Allhomes (allhomes.com.au) residential property listings portals * The Commercial Real Estate commercial property portal (commercialrealestate.com.au) * Domain Media media agency (domainmedia.com.au) * Domain Review, Domain and Domain Prestige magazines * Pricefinder, a property data business whose products focus on modelling projected values of real estate for investors, agents and financial institutions * RealTime Agent point of sale platform * Homepass estate agent CRM

Cricket sponsorship

In June 2018, Domain Group were announced as platinum partner of the Australian men's cricket team. Under the deal, Domain became the presenting partner of men's

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over four years, which included

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, and became the official real estate partner of

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References

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* {{S&P/ASX 200 Fairfax Media Nine Entertainment Real estate companies established in 1999 Technology companies established in 1999 1999 establishments in Australia 2017 initial public offerings Companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange Real estate companies of Australia Australian real estate websites